Revision as of 10:53, 11 September 2006

Hacks and hacked objects are items that change certain aspects of gameplay, for better or for worse.

Hack Management

Not hacks or hacked objects, but programs and utilities to help you manage your hacks.

• Hack Conflict Detecting Program: Paladin at SimWardrobe
• Hack Detector: Clean Installer (As Clean Installer has not been updated since approx. Oct. 2005, it will not detect all hacks, but can help).
• Hack and Duplicate Scanner: DJS Sims

Aging and Time

Hacks and hacked objects relating to the aging of sims, life stages, and time on the lot.

• Add/Subtract Aging Days: BlackSwan at MTS2
• Aging Controller/Individual Aging: Heirloom Cake by Inge at SimLogical
• Individual Aging: Monique at MTS2
• "Real-Time" Clock: Merola at MTS2
• Lot Timer (the closest thing possible to allow time to pass equally on all lots): JM Pescado at MATY
• Time Correct When Returning Home From Community Lot: The fact that one can leave home at noon, stay on a community lot for hours, return home, and it's still noon has vexed players since the game was released. However, there's a VERY GOOD REASON it's set up like this... If Joe goes to a community lot and leaves his wife Carol at home on the lot, and Joe's gone for four days (as is often possible especially with community sleep hacks), what does Carol do while he's gone? What if Carol's pregnant? What if Carol's almost an elder? What if she's about to get a promotion? What if they have kids - do they grow up while he's gone? One can use the InSIMenator to change the day of the week, and OfB includes a cheat to change the hour of the day, so you can simulate a return home at the correct time with that, but actually making it the "correct" time when you return home from a community lot is extremely unlikely/impossible as a hack.

Business, Jobs, and Finance

This content is focused on items and hacks relating to jobs, careers, finances, business (including Open for Business-specific or useful items) and money.

• ATM: Monique at MTS2
• Banking/Loans: Monique at MTS2
• Bills Paid Automatically: Paladin at SimWardrobe
• Business Controller (cool business macros): JM Pescado at MATY
• Craft Objects from OfB Buyable: Windkeeper at MTS2
• Customer Limit Adjuster: Paladin at SimWardrobe
• Donate Money: Monique at MTS2
• Elders Can Have Adult Jobs JM Pescado at MATY (no age discrimination)
• Employees - Hire more/any: christianlov at MTS2
• Jobs - Get any job at any time (including custom careers), get promoted/demoted: christianlov at MTS2
• Mannequins for Clothing Stores: Besen's, SimsConnection ($$$), Rado's Sims 2, Sunair Sims, CocoSims, sgoobysnacks at InSIM
• No Friends Required for Career Advancement/Promotions: TwoJeffs at MATY
• Pay Door: Inge at SimLogical
• Rent/Mortgage: Inge at SimLogical
• Send Money Order: JM Pescado at MATY
• Sleep on Community Lots (for Hotels): Squinge at InSIM
• Tenant/Landlord Hack: Monique at MTS2
• Many business-related tweaks and hacks: Squinge at InSIM (including hacks to make customers stop doing autonomous fighting, playing with their handhelds, and other stupid things they shouldn't do while shopping)

College and University

This content is focused on items and hacks for college, university, and young adults.

• Adjust Skills, Grades, GPA, Semester, Major, Time Until Final, Secret Society: TwoJeffs at MATY, Carrigon at S2W, JM Pescado at MATY
• Give Non-Graduate the Graduate 6 Wants & 2 Locks: JM Pescado at MATY
• Lifetime Wants for University Careers: Squinge at InSIM
• No More Final Exams at Night: TwoJeffs at MATY
• Synchronize Sims on Lot to Same Semester: JM Pescado at MATY
• Young Adult Lazy Slouch Fix: TwoJeffs at MATY
• Young Adult Without College: Squinge at InSIM

Reproduction, Relationships, and Families

This content is focused on items and hacks relating to pregnancy, impregnation, babies, baby care, toddlers, children, sim relations and relationships, and family.

Baby, Toddler, and Child Feeding

• Bottle Warmer: Eclectic Sims ($$$)
• Bottomless Baby Bottle: Inge at SimLogical
• Breastfeeding: Squinge at InSIM
• Mini-Fridge (Uni) with Bottles (& Regular Food Items): Targa at MTS2
• Smart Milk Dispenser - Everlasting: xptl297 at VS, christianlov at MTS2

Baby Care/Nanny

• Automated/Smarter Baby Care: JM Pescado at MATY
• Baby Harassment Stopper: JM Pescado at MATY
• Babies Selectable: Squinge at InSIM
• Baby/Toddler Gate (keep toddlers out of the toilet): Waltman15 at MTS2... or just eliminate most of their desire to do it entirely with this hack by TwoJeffs at MATY

Birth

• Choose Gender of Babies: Not a hack but instructions (not yet safely hackable)
• Identical Children Personalities/Genetics Quirk Fix: Info on what causes it..., and the fix by JM Pescado at MATY
• Twins: Monique at MTS2, the InSIMenator
• Twins/Triplets/Quadruplets/Random/Adjust Chances: TwoJeffs at MATY
• Even more births at once (Quintuplets or more): Does not exist as a hack, as it would not be advisable to generate that many new sims at once (too much of a strain on the game). Impregnate two sims and have multiple births using the hack above, or have one sim have two pregnancies with the first set of babies set not to age (using monique at MTS2's individual aging hack) until the second set are born.

Pregnancy

• Alien Pregnancy for Females: Squinge at InSIM
• Abortion: the InSIMenator
• Impregnate Sims (by other sims, alien): Cheat: testingcheatsenabled + Tombstone of L&D.
• Impregnate Sims (by other sims, alien, grim reaper, neighbor, etc.): the InSIMenator
• Miscarriage: the InSIMenator
• Maternity Clothes: See WCIF Lists
• Pregnant Sims Can Go to Community Lots: Squinge at InSIM
• Pregnant Sims Wear Any Outfit: Squinge at InSIM
• Pregnancy Alert: by Katy_76
• Pregnancy Test: Shaklin (18+)
• Same Sex Pregnancy: TwoJeffs at MATY
• Teen Pregnancy: the InTeenimater

Relationships & Marriage

• Casual Romance (Romantic interactions regardless of love/relationship): TwoJeffs at MATY, LizzLove at MTS2
• Community Lot Weddings: Squinge at InSIM
• No Relationship Decay: Squinge at InSIM
• Polygamy/Multiple Marriage: the InSIMenator
• Remove Unwanted Sims from Relationship Panel: Monique at MTS2
• Same Sex Marriage (instead of joined union): TwoJeffs at MATY
• Teen Marriage: the InSIMenator
• Teen/Teen Woohoo, Teen/Adult Woohoo: the InTeenimater, Woohoo Teens by Jenflower
• Wear Own Formalwear for Weddings (not needed with OfB): TwoJeffs at MATY

Family

• Child Support: Monique at MTS2
• Adopt Certain Gender & Teens: Squinge at InSIM
• Children Kiss (family kiss only): Squinge at InSIM
• More than 8 Sims Per Lot (No Family Size Limit):Doc Doofus at MTS2
• No Social Worker (Children can live alone): Inge at SimLogical, Carrigon at S2W
• Teens Can Live Alone/Independent Teens: the InSIMenator

Create-a-Sim Family Limits Removed

You can use this trick to create, for example, a teen and child as parent and child, adult and teen as siblings, create a teen to live alone without killing off the parents, etc... A hack to remove the limits imposed by Create a Sim is unlikely.

1. You must have Nightlife or any later expansions for the ageSimsCheat to work.
2. Create the sims in Create a Sim how you want them for their ages. Before you finish the sims, switch the sims to an age that it WILL work - for adult/teen as siblings, switch the teen to adult and make them siblings. For teen/child as parent/child, switch the teen to adult with the child as their child.
3. Finish the family and move them into a lot.
4. When the lot has loaded, CTRL-SHIFT-C to bring up the cheat console and enter "ageSimsCheat on"
5. Click on the sim(s) that are currently the incorrect age and age them up/down so they ARE the correct age. Relationships will stay intact.

Building, Buying, and Lots

Hacks and hacked objects for build mode, buy mode, lots, and construction.

• Apartments: There is no known "apartment" mod. However, one can simulate an apartment by using a set of the doors listed below (under Doors) to restrict sims from other sims' apartments.
• Buy Clothes/Groceries From Home: Monique at ModtheSims2
• Buy Clothes/Change Clothes/Change NPC & Townie Clothes at Home: christianlov at MTS2
• Build More Levels/Floors: Cheat/Trick
• Build Walls Right Up To Lot Edge: Not hackable - only Maxis could make this possible.
• Change Lot Sizes After Building: Not possible with hack/cheat, but is doable, with the LotExpander. Make sure you back up your stuff FIRST!
• Contents of Lot Stay When Moving Out: Stay-Things Shrub by Inge at SimLogical
• Doors - Clothes Change (Everyday/Formal), Family-Only, Pay, Bathroom, and Student-Only: Inge at SimLogical
• Doors - Security, Employees Only Pre-OfB, Restrict Sims from Certain Areas: Inge at SimLogical
• Doors - Keyholder, Clothing, Gender, Visitors, Family, Sim Limit Per Room: tunaisafish at MTS2
• Glass Elevators: (OfB) macarossi at MTS2. Pre-OfB or for a different look, you can simulate the look of glass elevators (make a convincing-looking fake one) using Numenor's Wall Windows, Targa's Ascension Stairs, and some suitable walls/floors/a door.
• Larger/Smaller Lot Sizes: Mary Lou Sims
• Mirrored Floors: BitzyBus at TSR
• Reflective/Shiny Floors: Reflex Sims ($$$ site, floors free in forums, registration required)
• Residential-to-Community and Community-to-Residential Objects: Search for "community residential" on ModTheSims2 to find all objects in collections to make them buyable on all lots types.
• Stackable Open for Business Stages: Not possible with a hack, doable with build cheats and tricks (though very limited in usefulness). See tutorial here.
• Wall Limit Removed: Hard coded by Maxis - Not possible as a hack. However, you can use Numenor's Unlevel Walls, in addition to your normal walls, to circumvent it.